Also, as you may have noted, Kregel has allowed Amazon to offer the Kindle edition for free this week — though I'm writing this Thursday, uncertain as to whether it will still be so Friday. Check it out.

How do I feel about it? Grateful, excited, often humbled, encouraged. Word is getting out. Folks who actually read it are saying that they find it to be a contribution towards what so many prominent pastors and writers have called for: accessible, un-dumbed-down communication of central Gospel truths, rooted in the whole range of Scripture, and related to life and thought.

Now, if only the word trickles up to those same pastors and writers, so they can start adding: "... like this."

Sales? Zero clue.

Yet to come: reviews for the much-anticipated and much-slower-to-read Proverbs book.

On the Elephant in the room. You could have read some thoughts at Pyro and various places on the tone-deaf cluelessness of inviting T. D. Jakes as a Christian leader for the next "Elephant Room." But of all the posts I read, the most poignant was my brother Thabiti Anyabwile's post... better, his lament.

Staying with the "clearly-not-getting-the-message" theme, Harold Camping wants the church and the world to know that he has not repented and he has not learned one thing from his devastating, self-caused humiliation. Okay, those weren't his exact words.

(It was a dynamic translation.)

Thoughtful of Camping, though, to continue to offer himself as a living example of Prov. 27:22... though I'd much rather he not.

Glad you found it...sorry I didn't post an actual link. Apparently that made too much sense for me!

Read the article by Denny Burk and came away saddened and repulsed. So should we start letting chlidren control the family budget, the remote control, and the family diet? I mean, since surely they know better than the parents what is actually best for everybody. If they know what is best for them better than the parents, then it only makes sense that they know what is best for the parents, too.

Yeah, I'm liking Cain more and more myself. I'm curious though, why is the MSM not beating him up more? a) they can, but are waiting till he's the nominee b) they can't c) they're still trying to figure out if Christie is running.

I also am mostly happy that Palin is not running (this time around) but after a little longer in this unofficial role she's currently doing, she needs to get back into some official role like (you suggested) a Senator.... or maybe, Secretary of Energy??? Think of all the people she could tick-off announcing new oil drilling in Alaska while standing next to the latest Caribou she just shot.

Burk's piece on the confused boy is so disturbing I couldn't even watch the whole video. I guess the thing that most amazes me about the issue is that it apparently never enters the minds of these "parents" (even for a second) that their life style just might have something to do with the kids confusion. Talk about suppressing the truth. Geez. Romans 1:18

DH grew up in the inner city and his mom one time had a rat come up through the sewer and into the basement toilet while she was sitting on it. Ew.

Herman Cain is growing on me, but there are so many unknowns. Since he's never had to take a vote on any of the issues I care about, it's really all lip service. He says pretty much the exact same things as Mitt Romney on abortion, but I happen to know that Romney legislated as a pro-choice governor of MA. We've got a track record on the other candidates to indicate how they would govern.

And now, the new Elephant in the Room (tm) is the pastor who introduced Perry at the Values Voter Summit (rightly) calling Mormonism a cult. In our twisted world, this becomes an immediate poll-toppling negative for Perry.

Santorum ran from them as well, however, being a Catholic, he's not qualified to explain what a true Christian is (as much as I like him as a candidate, much to DJP's chagrin).

Cain and Bachmann also refused to join in the fray. Politically, it's disastrous to jump in. Trying to explain the difference between the cult of Mormonism and biblical Christianity to pagans in a 6 second sound bite is generally a losing proposition. John MacArthur could maybe...maybe pull it off in six seconds. But he's a trained professional.

Dan Penn and I were at an evangelism conference this weekend, called Go, Stand and Speak. And Friday after the conference some of us decided to go to downtown philly, to where the Occupy Philly protesters were. Once we got there two of the guys started open air preaching, and all of the protesters started getting very aggressive, some came up to us (Penn, our pastor and wife and I) who were at first just standing there listening, and we were asked to leave bc they were protesting for different reasons, etc. It amazing how they want to have their right to free speech, but were not allowing us to have ours. But it made me wonder, what should our role be in a situation like this? How should Christians respond to tyrannical governments?Because I do agree with them that this government, and all governments pretty much (my country is worse and it has been since the dawn of the ages) but the philosophy and beliefs of most of the people protesting is what I don't agree with. Any thoughts?